Shreedevi Sunil

The storyteller also asserts that the context of the story is important; most fairy tales, she says, were written in the post-war period when resources were scarce. “From what I read, I gathered that there were, indeed, parents who left their children at a church or forest and hoped that out of niceness, someone would give them something to eat. So abandonment was common, and I could relate to it when I revisited Hansel and Gretel,” she informs.

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While the goal is not to contemporise each tale; Shreedevi hopes to present the stories in a manner where the audience can resonate to some parts of it.
 
The essence of a fairy tale lies in its ability to take the reader to make-believe, magical place, and Shreedevi will tackle that aspect, too. “Our expectations from them haven’t really changed. The child who is reading this will always hope to be a princess, but of course, as she grows up, she realises that life is not as easy as it seems,” she says.

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